﻿I find myself drawn to engines, cars, industrial images - shining and rusty. I enjoy painting them, and I enjoy watching other artists take on it. This theme of the rusty, outdated engine has been in my head for a while, and I have several images in my sketchbook for future paintings. There will eventually be a series of this theme, showing the contrast of nature and man-made objects. Looking at how the modern society treats the earth- the nature, wildlife, plants and trees, resources - it is scary and quite depressing to observe how arrogant mankind can be. In my part of the world there has evolved a kind of lifestyle of use whatever we want and throw away what we wanted as we get bored. Human acts as spoiled brats, constantly looking for new entertainment, more stuff to make our life easy and comfortable, and we are building a mountain of obsolete, still fully functional items. While nature and wildlife suffers from our abuse. I wonder, where does the need to constantly upgrade and renew our stuff come from? Have we reached a point of social security that leads to this destructive behavior? Too much money? Too much time on our hands? It seems to me that our focus is to create a perfect facade for others to measure how successful we are, all shown in the things we can buy. It gets kinda hard to see our humanity in light of this, what matters in the long run....have we reached a point where our value as human beings are measured in what possessions we have?

Sad thoughts, scary thoughts. Still, from what I can see nature wins, every time. Somehow nature will come up with another way of fighting back. Who will still be here in the end...it may be hard to see right now, but nature will always rise above. ﻿